Weird Owl is a Brooklyn band that resides in the heaviness inherent in the convergence of imagination, poetry and sound. First formed in 2004 and through its odd mutations involving changes in approach and personnel, Weird Owl has arrived at the present day in its most solid and powerful formation yet. Weird Owl has crafted a sonic mindscape inspired by legendary acts such as the 13th Floor Elevators and Crazy Horse that states its relevance to modern-day masters Black Mountain, Dead Meadow and The Black Angels.
In its first release for Tee Pee Records, entitled Ever the Silver Cord Be Loosed, Weird Owl has gathered together a tour de force of its peculiar craft--hypnotic slithering guitar lines, the strange breathiness of cosmic synths, a dash of the punishing heaviness of the riff--all contained within phantasmagoric song structures and expressed with the language of a true visionary experience.
There are many ways to be born, but Weird Owl would like to invite you to witness one of the weirdest: a birth experienced while already living.
"It’s like an angry LOVE translating the ALEISTER CROWLEY oeuvre into music with NEIL YOUNG on guitar." Michael Toland, The Big Takeover
"Ever the Silver Cord Be Loosed is one of those rare albums where a band has come out fully formed and functional without any growing pains apparent. Let's just hope that if the Psychedelic Americana Blues Stomp Revival trend kicks off, this is one of the albums that serves as its blueprint." Punk News
"These fabulously monikered Brooklyn heads essay a mellow satanic majesty, leavening hirsute riffs with an organ-flavoured mysticism redolent of tube amps and patchouli." MOJO Magazine
"It’s exhilarating stuff, conjuring up images of some vast, cosmic desert. That these boys hail from the Big Apple doesn’t seem possible; they sound like their hearts and spaced-out heads are firmly planted in some mythic Southwest." Jason P. Woodbury, Tiny Mix Tapes
"Numbing and rocking at the same time, don't be surprised if this album is deemed a controlled substance by the FDA." The Daily News Pittsburgh
"Brooklyn's Weird Owl exhale huge clouds of vintage lysergic rock through a veritable echo chamber of sonic delights." Revolver
"Brooklyn's Weird Owl has the sound of a band that was exiled to Stonehenge, given a whole bunch of ganja and scratched up Floyd, Crazy Horse and Roky Erickson records and told they would not be released from the land where the banshees live and they do live well until they had compiled a record full of fuzzy psyched out space rock." Christen Thomas, RCRDLBL
"They hail from the Stoner Rock league, southwest division. They aren’t mind-expanding as much as mind obliterating. Like their peers, the lyrics could be pulled from a tarot card reading. In their case, the cards are laid out in the bed of a pickup, after a night in the desert, the revelers wrapped in Indian blankets, waiting for the sun to rise." Ben Donnelly, Dusted Magazine
"Weird Owl plunder the sensibilities with frayed guitar lines that linger as well as they evaporate, all the while intimating that something wildly subversive is occurring. Ever the Silver Cord Be Loosed takes place under the cracked sky, where fractured constitutions surrender the quest for that which cannot be searched out." Parasites & Sycophants
"Neil Young in the desert, jamming with Meat Puppets, Screaming Trees and Black Sabbath under the influences of mindexpanding mushrooms and with a bookshelf full of occult literature within reach..." Lords of Metal
Greetings. I just wanted to thank you for your continued support and invite you to have a first listen on myspace to the tracks off the new EP "Monster & Minstrel" due out later this month. Bright stars to you! Ahmond
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NEW HEAVY SOUNDS - A club night for those not afraid of aural assault!
A new night of heavy live sounds and DJs to match in a new venue as dark and loud as necsary.
Next NHS features the mighty FRAFF and it's on SUNDAY 25TH OCTOBER.
Following the storming first night of New Heavy Sounds in September (with the marvellous BO-NINGEN headlining), we're super excited about the next NHS night, with zombie-baiting wonders CHICKENHAWK supported by the brilliant heavy garage of BAD FOR LAZARUS, the tight'n'heavy FRAFF and Cardiff's great STRANGE NEWS FROM ANOTHER STAR.
DJs include IGOR VOLK (NYPC / Diesel:U:Music Radio rock show) + STU PLIMSOLES. Visuals courtesy of image meister the k e r n s.
From Rock to Extreme Noise, Hardcore to Acid Rock, Grunge to Doom, Garage Rock to Stoner ie anything that is extreme rock'n'roll!!!
“Once & for all" is the title of Still Nasty’s upcoming LP. Recorded
and mixed in Crab Studios, in Madrid, produced by José López and Still
Nasty, and later mastered in Hollywood's own Precision Mastering
Studios, by Ron Boustead, in Los Angeles (USA). A whole lotta hard
rock, atmospheres, and a touch of stoner make up these Spaniard's
debut, Distributed by Alone Records/The Stone Circle.
Still Nasty. Nuevo LP en Noviembre 2009!!!
"Once & for all" es el título del primer LP de Still Nasty. Registrado
y mezclado en los estudios Crab de Madrid, cuenta con la producción de
José López y Still Nasty, siendo masterizado por Ron Boustead, en los
hollywoodienses Precision Mastering Studios, de Los Angeles (USA).
Mucho hard rock y atmósferas, con ataques del denominado stoner rock,
configuran el debut de los madrileños, que cuenta además con
interesantes colaboraciones (Marta Ruíz, de Sex Museum/Poliester,
Robertez, de Motociclón, entre otros). Distribuido por Alone
Records/The Stone Circle.
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